I had an issue on a 2.06 board and came and look if it was solved in the 2.1 edition. If not mistaking, it is not.

When a search is done you get the results as default by topic. If clicked it jumps to the beginning of the topic. Maybe it is useful to make a jump/link to the first relevant(search result) post in that topic. This is a feature for large topics. Otherwise you have to browse the whole topic to find the post with the matching searchword.